Palin Speaking in Fairfax Right Now, and Repeating Same Speech, AGAIN!

[Anonymous]

Okay, does anyone remember how many times we had to hear Bill Clinton rhapsodize about the bridge to the 21st century???? Talk about a bridge to nowhere ...

[Anonymous]

Palin gives new meaning to Colin Quinn's "That's my story and I'm sticking to it." (Originally from a CW tune by Collin Raye.)

[Anonymous]

Isn't this the definition of "stump" speech? I think all politicians do this -- use the same speech over and over for some period of time. It's just usually people aren't paying attention to every single stump speech so it doesn't matter. I recall that after Hillary had lost a key primary the commentators noted that her concession speech was actually just her stump speech which they had all heard many times.

I think these guys are on the road day after day, they don't get much sleep and there is probably limited time to gin up a new speech very often. I don't know if they rotate them out every few weeks or how often is standard but my guess is she is still well within the shelf life for a stump speech. Would be interested to hear an answer from someone who has worked on a presidential campaigh.

[Anonymous]

I was listening to NPR and the journalist/commentator seemed sincerely perplexed at how direct lying even when clear evidence is everywhere is now acceptable. It is one thing to make a mistake or for a speech writer not to fully understood what positions you have taken (one would think the candidate would point out the problem....) but to continue repeating what is a clear lie that you turned down something that you advocated for and only cancelled after the money was tagged for something else is amazing.

To an extent, the republicans in power were never punished for all the lies about the weapons of mass destruction. Now, it looks like the party has completely decided that truth has no value.

With the media so focused on ratings and entertainment, the 5th establishment as a protection is almost gone. Its sad when you think of all the courageous journalists in the past who risked everything to expose the truth. Now its a game of who has the largest ratings and not wanting to jeopardize getting the next big interview by asking real journalistic questions. I fear that if the dishonesty issues aren't grabbing the same number of eyeballs the press will move in even though these are critical issues. The major channels are all so desperate for the ratings that a Palin interview will bring they will guarantee softball questions, approved questions, and friendly formats.